I've been reading about how severe the drought situation in the West is, and I thought, "We have a potential solution already in place."
We know fracking uses a A LOT of water, actually creating droughts in communities. What if we could use fracking equipment to find and transport water?
They've got the drills -- they could drill wells for water.
They've got massive water tank trucks -- they could transport water to arid land and water it.
We all know bottled water costs as much or more per gallon than gas. Fracking companies are in the game to make money. They could make money HELPING the environment rather than destroying it.
Perhaps, they could make even more money (and hire more people) by installing water tanks that would capture rain water as well as well water at the drill sites and by installing an irrigation infrastructure where our crops are grown.
We've got nothing to lose by looking into the possibility.